Butterfly wings have role in tackling fake notes
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<< <i>The team made structurally identical copies of the scales on wings, which created the same iridescent colour when light bounces off them.
Mathias Kolle described the discovery as unlocking one of nature's secrets.
"These structures could be used to encrypt information on banknotes to protect them against forgery," he said.
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<< <i>The team made structurally identical copies of the scales on wings, which created the same iridescent colour when light bounces off them.
Mathias Kolle described the discovery as unlocking one of nature's secrets.
"These structures could be used to encrypt information on banknotes to protect them against forgery," he said.
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As far as anti-counterfeiting... well, if it can be made, then it can be counterfeited.
Although, certainly new tech is going to be a lot harder to counterfeit.
Ben Franklin used leaves as an anticounterfeit method on some of the first American currency.
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
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